Conservatism, the Right Wing, and the Far Right: A Guide to Archives. Archie Henderson

      http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/findingaids/view.php?eadid=MTS.defender-individuals

      http://mts.lib.uchicago.edu/collections/findingaids/index.php?eadid=MTS.defender-individuals

      [0537] Chicago Federation of Labor records, 1890-1983

      Location: Research Center, Chicago History Museum, 1601 North Clark Street, Chicago, IL 60614-6038

      Description: The Chicago Federation of Labor (CFL), an umbrella organization for unions in the Chicago area, was founded in 1896 as an affiliate of the American Federation of Labor (AFL). John Fitzpatrick (1872-1946) served as CFL president in 1900-1901, 1906-1946, and William Lee served as president in 1946-1984. Series 3. CFL records part 1: John Fitzpatrick office files, etc. 1890-1947 (box 1-38 & 3 scrapbooks). Subseries 1. Fitzpatrick chronological files, etc. (box 1-25), contains correspondence with Herbert Clark Hoover and William Allen White. Series 3. CFL records part 1: John Fitzpatrick office files, etc. 1890-1947 (box 1-38 & 3 scrapbooks). Subseries 2. Fitzpatrick topical files, etc. (box 26-38 & 3 scrapbooks), contains a file on the American Vigilant Intelligence Federation. Series 4. CFL records, part 2: William Lee office files, etc. (box 39-50), contains files on Right to Work, Illinois, 1967-1969, and Taft-Hartley.

      Finding aid:

      http://chsmedia.org/media/fa/fa/M-C/CFL-inv.htm

      [0537a] Chicago Historical Society Collection on the New York Council to Abolish HUAC, 1946-1970, TAM.431

      Location: Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, New York University Libraries, 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012

      Description: The New York Council to Abolish HUAC circulated literature and staged rallies and protests to try to abolish the United States Congress's House Committee on Un-American Activities. The collection includes press releases, newsletters, flyers and memoranda. The collection also contains flyers, leaflets and outreach collected from the National Lawyers Guild and other organizations on the left interested in law reform.

      Finding aids:

      http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/tam_431/

      http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/tam_431/tam_431.html

      [0537b] Chicago Police Department, Red Squad selected records, c. 1930s-86 (bulk 1963-74)

      Location: Chicago History Museum, 1601 North Clark Street, Chicago, IL 60614

      Description: The collection concerns surveillance of suspected "subversive" groups by the Chicago Police Department (CPD), ca. mid-1950s-74. Card indexes; files containing reports and correspondence about persons and organizations investigated as possible political subversives, scattered photographs, and some materials created by the persons or organizations under investigation, such as newsletters, brochures, and correspondence; plus some administrative records of the Chicago Police Department's Security Operations Section.

      Reference:

      Julie Thomas, "Unlikely Sources for Government Information. The Chicago Historical Society, A Case Study," DttP: Documents to the People vol. 33, no. 4 (Winter 2005), pp 27-29 (p. 27), http://wikis.ala.org/­godort/images/5/5d/Dttp_v33n4.pdf.

      Websites with information:

      http://chicagohistory.org/research/resources

      http://chicagohistory.org/research/resources/archives-and-manuscripts/red-squad

      http://libguides.chicagohistory.org/redsquad

      http://chsmedia.org/media/fa/fa/M-C/Introduction.htm

      [0537c] Roy A. Childs papers, 1933-1994, Coll. 93053

      Location: Hoover Institution Archives, 434 Galvez Mall, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-6010

      Description: Roy A. Childs (1949-1992) was a libertarian thinker, an editor of the Libertarian Review, and a scholar at the Cato Institute. Correspondence, speeches and writings, reports, studies, memoranda, bulletins, serial issues, pamphlets, clippings, and sound recordings relating to libertarian thought and activities in the United States, laissez-faire economics, and proposals for decriminalization of drug use. Series 1. Correspondence File, 1967-1992, contains files on Peter Bauer, Robert Bauman, Daniel Bell, Nathaniel Branden, David Brooks, Patrick Buchanan, Jameson Campaigne, Jr., Ed Clark, Midge Decter, Milton Friedman, F. A. Harper, Friedrich A. Hayek, Henry Hazlitt, Karl Hess, James Jackson Kilpatrick, Irving Kristol, Robert LeFevre and Rampart College, Roger Lea MacBride, Felix Morley, Robert Nisbet, Robert Nozick, Ron Paul, Howard Phillips, Norman Podhoretz, Justin Raimondo, Leonard E. Read, Reason, and Murray N. Rothbard. Series 3. Speeches and Writings, 1933-1994. [Subseries] Research Notes, 1933-1992, contains files on Cato Institute, Cold War, conservatives, defense, drug legalization, foreign policy, Holocaust, Institute for Humane Studies, Laissez-Faire-Books, Rose Wilder Lane, LeFevre, Libertarian Party, Libertarian Review, Libertarians, Neoconservatives, Robert Nozick, Objectivism, Ayn Rand, Murray N. Rothbard, George Will, and Young Americans for Freedom. [Subseries] Writings by Others, 1945-1992, contains files on Frédéric Bastiat, Nathaniel Branden, Cato Institute, Lawrence V. Cott, Justus D. Doenecke, John T. Flynn, Milton Friedman, F. A. Harper, Friedrich Hayek, Henry Hazlitt, Jr. Karl Hess, Russell Kirk, Charles Koch, Irving Kristol, Rose Wilder Lane, Robert LeFevre, The Libertarian Newsletter, H. L. Mencken, Charles Murray, Robert A. Nisbet, Albert Jay Nock, Robert Nozick, Norman Podhoretz, Justin Raimondo, Ayn Rand, Leonard E. Read, Murray N. Rothbard, Hans F. Sennholz, Joseph Sobran, and Ernest Van Den Haag.

      Reference:

      Nancy MacLean, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America (New York: Viking, 2017).

      Finding aid:

      http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf7g5005dj/entire_text/

      [0538] Art Chimes Collection, 1927-1987 [audio recordings]

      Location: Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Russell Special Collections Building, University of Georgia, 300 S. Hull Street, Athens, GA 30602

      Description: Art Chimes is a journalist at the Voice of America. The collection consists primarily of ¼" open reel recordings containing over 3100 radio programs taped off-air. Programs include the following: Hitler Addresses Danzig Meeting, Broadcast with translation by NBC 9/19/39; Lee Harvey Oswald Right-wing propaganda 8/21/63; Let Freedom Ring Right-wing telephone message, Atlanta. 12/13/73; Let Freedom Ring, Right-wing telephone message, Atlanta. 4/6/74; and Studio One: Americans All (on H. L. Mencken), VOA 10/14/84.

      Websites with information:

      http://www.libs.uga.edu/media/collections/audioradio/chimes.html

      Finding aids:

      http://www.libs.uga.edu/media/collections/audioradio/findingaids/chimes_findingaid.pdf

      http://www.libs.uga.edu/media/collections/homemovies/findingaids/chimes_web.pdf

      [0538a] Chinese American: Exclusion/Inclusion

      Location: New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, at Richard Gilder Way (77th Street), New York, NY 10024 [online exhibition]

      Description: Throughout the 1870s, anti-Chinese sentiment began to infiltrate American political discourse. Led primarily by legislators in California, Congress began to seek laws to restrict Chinese immigration, resulting in passage of the most restrictive immigration law ever adopted by Congress: the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. The Chinese Exclusion Act was repealed by the Magnuson Act on December 17, 1943, and in 2012 Congress issued a formal apology to Chinese-American people, expressing regret for the discriminatory law. The online exhibition treats, in part, the Exclusion Act of 1882, which barred most Chinese from entering the United States, and the Chinese American activists who used the American justice system to try to overturn the Exclusion Act. The exhibition includes George Frederick Keller's cartoon "What shall we do with our boys?" (The Wasp, March 3, 1882), which illustrates the stereotype of unemployed white workers forced to turn to loitering and crime because Chinese immigrants took their